BooksRun is a popular online textbook website that allows you to buy, sell, or rent textbooks. BooksRun Review
It’s common for college textbooks to cost hundreds of dollars each at campus bookshops. Yet when the end of the semester comes, the bookshop may tell you they aren’t buying back those books.
Or they may offer to buy your used book but only at a fraction of the price you bought it for ($10 for a $150 book? No thanks.). No matter how you slice it, buying textbooks from a regular bookshop can be a hassle, and selling it back, even more so.
So what are the alternatives? BooksRun is a service that allows you to buy, sell or rent physical books and eTextbooks with less hassle and at incredible prices. Keep reading our full review to see if the service could save you time and money. BooksRun Review
What Does BooksRun Offer?
BooksRun has a selection of 500,000 books that cover everything from law to philosophy to medicine. Here are the specifics of how their platform works. BooksRun Review
eTextbook Rentals
eTextbooks are an excellent learning tool if you have no interest in lugging heavy books around. Apart from this, eTextbooks cost 50-70% less than physical books and so you’ll save money.
On BooksRun, you can buy eTextbooks with one click and immediately have the access code to the textbook. This access code will allow you to download the book as a PDF or an EPUB.
You can use both of these eTextbook formats on your phone, tablet or computer even when you’re offline.
BooksRun also allows you to rent eTextbooks. In this case, you will have access to your electronic textbook for the duration of your class. BooksRun Review
To search for a book (digital or physical) on the website, all you need is the ISBN of the book (you can ask your professor for this if it wasn’t included in your class syllabus), the title of the book, or the author.
Related: The Best College Textbook Rental Sites
Buy Or Rent Physical Textbooks
If you like you learn better from a physical book, you’re not left out. Physical textbooks are available for purchase or rental on BooksRun as well.
Just like you did for eTextbooks, you will need to enter the ISBN, book title or author in the search box on BooksRun. Once you do that, the search will pull up different editions of the book you’re looking for and you can make a decision. BooksRun Review
Returning your rented books on BooksRun is free. Twenty-five days after your rental order, there will be a return shipping label available on your BooksRun dashboard that you can print. Once you’re done with your book, simply place it in an envelope with the return shipping label, mail it, and you’re done.
A word of caution here: It is absolutely important that you return your rented book by the BooksRun deadline. If you don’t, you will be charged $15 for the first 15 days your book is late. If you still have not returned the book at that point, BooksRun will charge you for the full price of the book. BooksRun Review